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A month or so prior to the share market crash in 1987 one of the major brokers, McCaughan Dyson in Melbourne, had been negotiating with me to come and work with them as part of a strategic investment research group. I declined to go after several weeks of negotiating and board room lunches. The problem for me was, I kept telling them we were very close to a severe market downturn.
I recommended they should warn their clients to start hedging, I even put it in writing. When I realized they didn't want to know, I decided I couldn't work with anyone who didn't respect my work, they only wanted me as a FIGURE HEAD. I got a lot of satisfaction out of telling them "I told you so" when the market took the huge dive.

Maybe, "умная голова", "голова с цифрами" или просто "номинальный лидер"? Тут есть идиома?